{"id":6828,"date":"2017-07-28T02:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2017-08-18T02:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:32:40","slug":"month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/07\/28\/month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Britain: June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/07\/28\/month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-july-2017\/london-attacks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/london-attacks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/london-attacks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/london-attacks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A chronological review of some of the main stories about the rise of Islam in Britain during June 2017.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Britain: June 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10742\/islam-multiculturalism-britain-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<p>June 3. Khuram Shazad Butt, a 27-year-old Pakistani-born British citizen, Rachid Redouane, a 30-year-old who claimed to be Libyan and Moroccan and Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-40150689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered<\/a> eight people and injured 50 others in a jihadist attack on and around the London Bridge. The three assailants were shot dead by police. It was the third jihadist attack in Britain in as many months.<\/p>\n<p>June 3. Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor and one of the most prominent Muslim lawyers in Britain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/myths-by-muslims-hit-anti-terror-campaign-0lqf9jl5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> that an \u201cindustry\u201d of Islamist groups in the country is undermining the fight against terrorism by peddling \u201cmyths\u201d about the Prevent strategy, the government\u2019s key anti-radicalization policy. He singled out the Islamist-dominated Muslim Council of Britain, and said he was shocked that in the agenda for its annual meeting there was \u201cnothing about radicalization and nothing about the threat of people going to Syria.\u201d Afzal, who prosecuted the Rochdale sex-grooming gang, also condemned \u201cself-appointed\u201d community leaders whose sole agenda was to present Muslims \u201cas victims and not as those who are potentially becoming radicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June 3. Khalid Al-Mathkour, chairman of Kuwait\u2019s sharia council, and Essam Al-Fulaij, a Kuwaiti government figure known for his anti-Semitic diatribes, are listed as trustees of a UK-registered charity that is building a mosque in Sheffield, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/06\/03\/anti-semite-muslim-brotherhood-supporter-behind-new-uk-mosque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Telegraph<\/em>. They have helped channel almost \u00a3500,000 ($650,000) into the project from Kuwait. Another \u00a3400,000 ($525,000) has been donated to the charity, the Emaan Trust, by a Qatari organization. The stated aim of the new mosque, which will have a capacity for 500 worshippers, is to \u201cpromote and teach Islamic morals and values to new Muslim generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10742\/islam-multiculturalism-britain-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chronological review of some of the main stories about the rise of Islam in Britain during June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48],"tags":[180,161,46,181,30],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-counter-terrorism","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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